Man being held in 1994 Odessa homicide cold case

Samuel McDowell AKA Samuel Little, 78, is being held at Ector County Jail in connection to a 24-year-old Odessa cold case murder investigation.

Samuel McDowell AKA Samuel Little, 78, is being held at Ector County Jail in connection to a 24-year-old Odessa cold case murder investigation.

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Samuel McDowell AKA Samuel Little, 78, is being held at Ector County Jail in connection to a 24-year-old Odessa cold case murder investigation.

Samuel McDowell AKA Samuel Little, 78, is being held at Ector County Jail in connection to a 24-year-old Odessa cold case murder investigation.

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Man being held in 1994 Odessa homicide cold case

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A 78-year-old man is being held at Ector County Jail in connection to a 24-year-old Odessa cold case murder investigation.

Samuel McDowell AKA Samuel Little, a convicted murderer, was interviewed by a Texas Ranger on May 17 in connection to the death of Denise Christie Brothers, according to a press release from the Odessa Police Department.

McDowell is serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2014 in the murders of three women in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s, according to the Wise County Messenger.

During the interview, McDowell provided information about Brothers’ death that had not been released the public, according to the press release. He also provided a timeline that put him in Odessa during the time of the homicide.

Brothers, 38, was last seen in the parking lot of a motel at 2nd Street and West County Road in early Jan. 1994, according to the Odessa Crime Stoppers website. Her body was discovered on Feb. 2, 1994, and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the press release.

An Ector County jury indicted McDowell in July in Brothers’ death, according to KOSA-TV.